Category: R

The taking one’s goods, from another, who without right has taken possession thereof.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. The taking back of a fief by the seignior, in case of alienation by the vassal. A right of pre-emption by the seignior, in case

In Saxon law. The court of the revc. reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.

An offense against religion punishable in England by fine and imprisonment 4 Steph. Comm. 208.

A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger ; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor, before he

L. Lat. Riotously. A formal and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, S34.

A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or channel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which

In French mercantile law. The list of a ship’s crew; a muster roll.

A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the effect that “if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound,” the

1. An established standard, guide, or regulation; a principle or regulation set up by authority, prescribing or directing action or forbearance; as, the rules of a legislative body, of a company, court,

In English ecclesiastical la . Very ancient officers of tlie church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose

is used principally in the phrase “free entry, egress, and regress” but It is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186.

For work and labor. 1 Comyns, IS.

A statute, so called, of justices assigned by Edward I. and his council, to go a circuit through all England, and to hear and determine all complaints of injuries done within five

The act of scraping, scratching, or shaving the surface of a written in- strument, for the purpose of removing certain letters or words from it. It is to be distinguished from “obliteration,”

Lat. By reason of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230.

A brief term for real property ; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property.

To revoke, cancel, vacate, or reverse a judgment for matters of fact; when it is annulled by reason of errors of law, it is said to be “reversed.”

To claim or demand back; to ask for the return or restoration of a thing; to insist upon one’s right to recover that which was one’s own, but was parted with conditionally